I guess there might be room for a poll about what kind of data people might be comfortable with, under what circumstances.
For example, I personally would be comfortable with hardware information, even as “buried opt-out”, as long as it is stored in a non-fingerprintable way.[1] I’m comfortable with reporting what packages and flatpaks I have installed and even non-specific information about the ones I’ve run with explicit opt-out. I’m comfortable with that for most GNOME settings, as well. I’m comfortable participating in some UX studies with opt-in. But something like “file types in my Documents directory” or whatever? Nope!
This touches on Approaches to data handling, safety, and avoiding individual identification — a breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation… Personally, for myself, not worried if an encrypted form of this passes through a proxy together before it’s separated, although I can think of stronger designs for that too.] ↩︎